The image of a woman in Russian fairy tales
Folklorist Varvara Dobrovolskaya about two types of fairy-tale heroines, the ideal of a woman and the origin of Baba Yaga / FAQ
All female characters of Russian fairy tales are divided into two large groups: characters of this world, that is, the world of a fairy-tale hero, and characters of another world, the world where he goes fairy tale hero, where wonderful curiosities are found, where enemies live, where the Serpent carries away the beautiful royal daughters.
Varvara Dobrovolskaya— Candidate of Philological Sciences, head of the folklore and ethnographic department of the Center of Russian Folklore, doctoral student at the Institute of World Literature. A.M. Gorky, scientific secretary of the State Republican Center of Russian Folklore.
Typology female images in Russian fairy tales
In the hero's world, women are innocent, all oppressed heroines are stepdaughters who are offended by stepmothers; wives who are slandered by their husband's relatives; women who are turned into animals by witches, and so on. The other group consists of the Tsar’s favorite daughters, smart girls and beauties, whom loving fathers protect from the harmful influence of the world. This excessive guardianship leads to the fact that sooner or later the king has to announce a competition for his daughter’s hand in marriage and come up with difficult tasks for potential suitors, the most famous of which is jumping on a horse to the princess’s window. In another case, the girl turns out to be completely unprepared for the vicissitudes of fate, and she is kidnapped directly from the care of her mothers and nannies by a large and terrible Serpent.
Of course, there are other, smaller varieties of women in this world, but they are all distinguished by their beauty and absolute inability to cope with life. The exception is devoted wives who go in search of their husbands, such as the heroine of the fairy tale “Finist - Clear Falcon", or with their all-consuming love they revive a deceased lover, as in the fairy tale " The Scarlet Flower" Finally, there are heroines who marry an otherworldly creature and then, after he is killed by relatives, turn into birds that mourn their loved one all their lives, as in the fairy tale “The Cancer Husband.”
The characters in the other world are significantly richer. They act in the hero's world, but in fact they are creatures of another world. These are witches and sorceresses who somehow come into contact with the hero or heroine. This is the stepmother who is actually endowed magical abilities and in a number of fairy tales she is even a relative of otherworldly creatures. These are all sorts of wonderful maidens who somehow appear in the hero’s life. The Tsar-Maiden, who sails to the seashore where the hero sleeps; This beautiful princess, the existence of which the hero learns from a portrait brought from overseas countries, or from the words of a friend, who also happens to be the brother of such a girl.
The hero can find a wife on the border of the worlds, where she remains in animal form. So, the hero finds a frog in the swamp, which at night turns into Vasilisa the Wise, carrying out all the orders of the hero’s father with the help of her wonderful assistants. Another lucky man finds his wife in the forest, where she sits on a birch tree in the form of a dove. Having taken the bird home, the hero receives not only three hot meals a day, but also a good adviser and assistant in the fight against the tsarist regime. Finally, Ivan the merchant's son, showing a certain ingenuity, steals the duck girl's dress and agrees to exchange it only for wedding ring, and with its help he not only deceives the sea king, but also returns safely to his kingdom-state.
But more often the hero is simply told about girls from another world. Usually such heroines are the subject of the hero's search. He follows them to the thirtieth kingdom, descends into the underworld, and sinks to the bottom of the sea-ocean. These can be completely independent and wealthy heroines who have not only their own kingdom-state, but also a garden with wonderful rejuvenating apples and a well with living and dead water.
It should be noted that in fairy tales there is a small group of characters who live in the borderlands between worlds. First of all, this is Baba Yaga, a wonderful old woman, and all those various assistants of the hero, all sorts of old women who appear on the road and help him with advice.
The image of a girl in Russian fairy tales
In Russian fairy tales, the age of the hero is often indeterminable. When saying that the hero is a boy and the heroine is a girl, the storyteller will not necessarily be talking about children. So, everyone is used to the fact that in the fairy tale “Little Little Khavroshechka” a girl acts, but at the end of the fairy tale she marries the king’s son, that is, we are not dealing with a child, but with a girl of marriageable age. There is a similar story with sister Alyonushka, who also, despite her little goat brother, successfully marries.
Most likely, the girl heroine appears in a small number of fairy tales. The child hero is a rather rare type in Russian fairy tales; most often it is a boy. The girl can be found in several fairy tales: this is the Snow Maiden - a girl sculpted from snow and melted under the rays of the sun or from the warmth of a fire. Probably, the heroine from the tales of the reeds on the grave, in which girlfriends or sisters kill a younger girl for a jug of berries, can be considered as a girl. Finally, most likely, the heroine of the fairy tale “Geese and Swans” can be considered a child.
The girl appears very rarely in Russian fairy tales, which is understandable, because a child cannot be a hero as such. He can either be distinguished by a miraculous birth, and then the fairy tale is concerned with the problem of what will happen next when he grows up and begins to perform feats, or this miraculous birth becomes the main thing - the Snow Maiden melts.
The ideal woman in Russian fairy tales
Russian fairy tale does not give detailed descriptions, this is atypical for the genre, and accordingly, there is no ideal woman in the fairy tale. In fairy tales, a certain conventional portrait is given, that is, we can assume what kind of woman might be. Which one do you like on this moment, this is how she appears in the fairy tale. We usually don’t even know her hair color. She is simply beautiful and, of course, smart - both Elena the Beautiful and Elena the Wise. This does not mean that one is beautiful and the other is smart. She is beautiful and smart at the same time, just depending on what the hero needs more at this particular moment: for a wife to be smart or for a wife to be beautiful - depending on the need fairy tale plot It is precisely this image of a woman that will be realized in the fairy tale.
Sometimes there are some wonderful elements in the portrait of the heroine, such as, for example, “she is so beautiful that her cerebellum flows from bone to bone.” We can assume that her skin is so thin that we can see all of her insides. It's hard to say whether it's beautiful or not. But to the storyteller at the time of telling the tale, this seems to be an indicator of extraordinary beauty. If Western princesses are usually golden-haired, then ours fairy-tale heroines They may also be dark-haired. But such a detail as hair color is mentioned extremely rarely in the fairy tale.
Origin and features of the image of Baba Yaga
This is a mythological character who found himself in a fairy tale during the destruction of the mythological system. It is associated with the image of a priestess during initiation and funeral rites. Its origin is usually associated with chthonic characters of the underworld, the world of the dead, most often with snakes.
We can talk about this based on her name. The root “-yag-” was used in a number of dialects to refer to snakes. The serpentine origin of the yaga can be inferred from certain features of its appearance preserved in fairy tales. For example, Baba Yaga never walks - she jumps. She has a bone leg. Most likely, this is the character's only leg, and she does not have a second leg. If we look at it in more detail, turning to the mythological origins of this image, it becomes clear that the yaga’s only leg is not a leg, but a snake’s tail. Baba Yaga belongs to the so-called snake deities, who are the masters of the forest and the world of the dead. In some fairy tales, animals and birds obey Baba Yaga.
Illustration by Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942)
She can be depicted as a corpse, she is in a hut, which itself resembles a coffin, she “lies from corner to corner,” “her nose is rooted in the ceiling.” In some tales, she may have pieces of rotten flesh protruding from her body. That is, she is a half-decomposed corpse. Being the closest to the world of death, she acts as the first dead, the character who first passed through death, who knows how to get through the world of the dead. That is why she helps the hero-seeker overcome the difficulties of another world, gain secret knowledge and treasures located there.
But, as you know, they do not return from the world of the dead, but the hero arrives home safely. The reason for this is that the fairy tale is associated not only with ideas about funeral practices, but also with rituals of an initial nature, in which the participant goes through death in order to receive new life and new social qualities. This is most clearly seen in the fairy tales about the boy and Baba Yaga, when the hero, with the help of cunning, avoids falling into the oven. The fairy tale in this case involved the motif of the hero’s rebirth through rebirth, since the stove in mythology is synonymous with the female womb. Baba Yaga helps the hero to be reborn in a new capacity, to acquire new knowledge, that is, she, as it were, performs an initiation rite.
Russian fairy tale
Folklorist Varvara Dobrovolskaya on the formation of the genre, the image of Baba Yaga and the ritual logic of the fairy tale
How was the fairy tale genre formed? What is the audience fairy tale? What are the origins of the image of Baba Yaga? And what myth underlies the image? fairytale snake? Varvara Dobrovolskaya, candidate of philological sciences, talks about this.
Characters invented in Russia are symbols of the childhood of each of us, while different countries in the world they are perceived completely differently. For example, if in Russian mythology Baba Yaga is evil spirits, then among the Scandinavians similar character- this is a goddess kingdom of the dead, Hel.
Female images: “my light, mirror, tell me...”
Vasilisa the Wise, Elena the Beautiful, Marya the Mistress, the Frog Princess, the Snow Maiden, Alyonushka - female images that possessed not only stunning female logic, but also kindness, wisdom, beauty, and sincerity. The most striking of them are:
1 A fragile little girl, Santa Claus's assistant - a favorite New Year's guest, a role model for naughty children. Since the mid-19th century, the image of a little granddaughter has been replaced by a young beauty, with the obligatory kokoshnik or fur hat, preferred clothing of Russian women.
No country in the world can boast of the same magical and romantic biography as the Russian Snow Maiden. In Italy, this is the fairy Befana, an old woman with a hooked nose who flies to children on a broom, giving gifts. A kind of “Santa Claus” in a skirt. The Mongols call their Snow Maiden Zazan Okhin, the girl Snow. The heroine traditionally asks riddles and gives gifts only after hearing the answer. In the USA, Santa has only reindeer as his assistants, but there is no Snow Maiden.
It’s interesting that if you try to translate the word Snegurochka into English using the service “ Google Translate", then the result will always be different. Yesterday Snegurochka was translated as “Snow - boy” (literally - snow boy). Today, Snegurochka in the service database is translated as Snow-maiden (Made from snow).
2 Masha, the Bear's restless companion, a naughty character in the record-breaking 3D cartoon.
The green-eyed fidget is fluent in hand-to-hand combat techniques, loves to be capricious and mischievous, and asks questions that are difficult to answer. The prototype of the animated series was the folklore heroine of the Russian folk tale. Director O. Kuznetsov borrowed character traits from the hero of O. Henry’s story “The Leader of the Redskins.” The team behind the series does not adapt native Russian characters for broadcast in different countries.
3 Baba Yaga- witch, heroine Slavic mythology, endowed magical power. Negative character lures good fellows to his hut on chicken legs, without fail he gives the heroes a fairy-tale horse and a magical navigator of those times - a ball of thread. The Russian witch is not always friendly, but if you have the gift of eloquence, she can help.
4 Firebird, a fabulous bird that heals the sick and restores sight to the blind, has to sister the Western European bird Phoenix, which knew how to revive from the ashes. The father of the two fiery heroines was most likely Peacock.
Each heroine is an individual, embodying good or evil, her actions and actions are directly related to her character and mission.
Male images: “there are still no shortage of heroes on the Russian land!”
No less colorful is the top positive male images, vividly conveying the spirit of the Russian people. The main images are always antagonistic: in contrast to the beautiful, there is always something bad. Without which male characters are Russian fairy tales unthinkable?
1 Father Frost.
In the Russian version - Morozko, Studenets, the mighty lord of the winter blizzard. The character adored by children rides three horses, binds ponds and rivers with the sound of a staff, and sweeps away cities and villages with his cold breath. IN New Year together with the Snow Maiden gives gifts. During the Soviet era, Grandfather was dressed in a red fur coat, the color of the country’s flag. The image of the popular Grandfather, who “wanders through forests and meadows” is played out differently in different countries: Santa Claus, Joulupuki, Jouluvana.
This is interesting:
According to the most conservative estimates of scientists, Santa Claus is already more than 2000 years old. For two thousand years, Santa Claus has appeared in different images. First - in the form pagan god Zimnik: an old man of short stature, with white hair and a long gray beard, with his head uncovered, in warm white clothes and with an iron mace in his hands. And in the fourth century, Santa Claus was reminded of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, who lived in Asia Minor in the city of Patara.
Grandfather began coming to the house with gifts with the beginning of the New Year celebration in Rus'. Previously, he gave gifts to the obedient and smart, and beat the mischievous ones with a stick. But the years have made Santa Claus more compassionate: he replaced the stick with a magic staff.
By the way, Father Frost first appeared on the pages of books in 1840, when Vladimir Odoevsky’s “Children’s Tales of Grandfather Irenaeus” was published. In the book, the name and patronymic of the winter magician became known - Moroz Ivanovich.
In the twentieth century, Santa Claus almost disappeared. After the revolution, it was considered that celebrating Christmas was harmful for the people, because it was a real “priestly” holiday. However, in 1935, the disgrace was finally lifted, and soon Father Frost and the Snow Maiden appeared together for the first time at the Christmas tree celebration in the Moscow House of Unions.
2 Three heroes. Strong, brave, funny heroes have long become a symbol of Russia, thanks to a series of full-length adventures by Alyosha Popovich, Dobrynya Nikitich and Ilya Muromets. In fact, the brave fellows never met in life; according to epics, they even lived in different centuries.
This is interesting:
In 2015, the 6th part of the saga, “Three Heroes: Knight's Move,” released on screens, collected 962,961,596 rubles. Almost 1 billion rubles! Thus, the film became the highest-grossing animated film of the year. Although it all started modestly: the box office of the first part - “Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin the Serpent” (2004) - amounted to 48,376,440 rubles. Then the fees grew steadily.
3 Ivan the Fool(third son) - a character who embodies a special “magic strategy”: the hero acts in spite of common sense and always succeeds! The fool excels at solving riddles, defeats evil spirits and valiantly saves the main character.
Pinocchio, Crocodile Gena, Doctor Aibolit, Barmaley, Winnie the Pooh, Leopold the Cat and Matroskin the Cat are also among the most popular and beloved heroes of Russian cinema, who rightfully occupy high positions in the ranking of fairy-tale characters.
Evil spirits: guardians of forests, swamps and houses
The largest Russian group folk epic make up mythical creatures. Vodyanoy, Kikimora, Leshy, mermaids, Brownie, Baba Yaga - magical images that appeared along with the inexplicable forces of nature. In his actions and character - this is more negative characters, but at the same time, they are charming and charismatic in modern films and cartoons, these include:
1 Koschei the Deathless. A character who has supernatural power. According to legends, he is a treacherous old man who kills domestic animals. The sorcerer often kidnaps the protagonist's fiancee in the hope of "mutual love."
This is interesting:
In Soviet cinema, Koshei was brilliantly played by actor Georgy Millyar. Basically, he played all sorts of evil spirits and he had to apply complex makeup. But for the role of Koshchei the Immortal, makeup was practically not needed, since the actor himself resembled a living skeleton (after contracting malaria, the actor’s weight was only 45 kg).
Koschey the Immortal - Georgy Millyar - Article
Folklorist Varvara Dobrovolskaya about two types of fairy-tale heroines, the ideal of a woman and the origin of Baba Yaga.
All female characters of Russian fairy tales are divided into two large groups: the characters of this world, that is, the world of the fairy-tale hero, and the characters of another world, the world where the fairy-tale hero goes, where wonderful wonders are located, where enemies live, where the Serpent carries away the beautiful royal daughters .
Varvara Dobrovolskaya- Candidate of Philological Sciences, head of the folklore and ethnographic department of the Center of Russian Folklore, doctoral student at the Institute of World Literature. A.M. Gorky, scientific secretary of the State Republican Center of Russian Folklore.
Typology of female images in Russian fairy tales
In the hero's world, women are innocent, all oppressed heroines are stepdaughters who are offended by stepmothers; wives who are slandered by their husband's relatives; women who are turned into animals by witches, and so on. The other group consists of the king’s beloved daughters, smart girls and beauties, whom loving fathers protect from the harmful influence of the world. This excessive guardianship leads to the fact that sooner or later the king has to announce a competition for his daughter’s hand in marriage and come up with difficult tasks for potential suitors, the most famous of which is jumping on a horse to the princess’s window. In another case, the girl turns out to be completely unprepared for the vicissitudes of fate, and she is kidnapped directly from the care of her mothers and nannies by a large and terrible Serpent.
Of course, there are other, smaller varieties of women in this world, but they are all distinguished by their beauty and absolute inability to cope with life. The exception is devoted wives who go in search of their husbands, as, for example, the heroine of the fairy tale “Finist - the Bright Falcon”, or with their all-consuming love they revive a deceased lover, as in the fairy tale “The Scarlet Flower”. Finally, there are heroines who marry an otherworldly creature and then, after he is killed by relatives, turn into birds that mourn their loved one all their lives, as in the fairy tale “The Cancer Husband.”
The characters in the other world are significantly richer. They act in the hero's world, but in fact they are creatures of another world. These are witches and sorceresses who somehow come into contact with the hero or heroine. This is a stepmother who is actually endowed with magical powers and is even a relative of otherworldly creatures in a number of fairy tales. These are all sorts of wonderful maidens who somehow appear in the hero’s life. The Tsar Maiden, who sails to the seashore where the hero sleeps; This is a beautiful princess, whose existence the hero learns from a portrait brought from overseas countries, or from the words of a friend, who also happens to be the brother of such a girl.
The hero can find himself a wife on the border of the worlds, where she remains in animal form. So, the hero finds a frog in the swamp, which at night turns into Vasilisa the Wise, carrying out all the instructions of the hero’s father with the help of her wonderful assistants. Another lucky man finds his wife in the forest, where she sits in the form of a dove on a birch tree. Having taken the bird home, the hero receives not only three hot meals a day, but also a good adviser and assistant in the fight against the tsarist regime. Finally, Ivan the merchant's son, showing a certain ingenuity, steals the duck girl's dress and agrees to exchange it only for a wedding ring, and with her help he not only deceives the sea king, but also returns safely to his kingdom-state.
But more often the hero is simply told about girls from another world. Usually such heroines are the subject of the hero's search. He follows them to the thirtieth kingdom, descends into the underworld, and sinks to the bottom of the sea-ocean. These can be completely independent and wealthy heroines who have not only their own kingdom-state, but also a garden with wonderful rejuvenating apples and a well with living and dead water.
It should be noted that in fairy tales there is a small group of characters who live in the borderlands between worlds. First of all, this is Baba Yaga, a wonderful old woman, and all those various assistants of the hero, all sorts of old women who appear on the road and help him with advice.
The image of a girl in Russian fairy tales
In Russian fairy tales, the age of the hero is often indeterminable. When saying that the hero is a boy and the heroine is a girl, the storyteller will not necessarily be talking about children. So, everyone is used to the fact that in the fairy tale “Little Little Khavroshechka” a girl acts, but at the end of the fairy tale she marries the king’s son, that is, we are not dealing with a child, but with a girl of marriageable age. There is a similar story with sister Alyonushka, who also, despite her little goat brother, gets married successfully.
Most likely, the girl heroine appears in a small number of fairy tales. The child hero is a rather rare type for Russian fairy tales; most often it is a boy. The girl can be found in several fairy tales: this is the Snow Maiden - a girl sculpted from snow and melted under the rays of the sun or from the warmth of a fire. Probably, the heroine from the tales of the reeds on the grave, in which girlfriends or sisters kill a younger girl for a jug of berries, can be considered as a girl. Finally, most likely, the heroine of the fairy tale “Geese and Swans” can be considered a child.
The girl appears very rarely in Russian fairy tales, which is understandable, because a child cannot be a hero as such. He can either be distinguished by a miraculous birth, and then the fairy tale is concerned with the problem of what will happen next when he grows up and begins to perform feats, or this miraculous birth becomes the main thing - the Snow Maiden melts.
The ideal woman in Russian fairy tales
Russian fairy tales do not provide detailed descriptions; this is atypical for the genre; accordingly, there is no ideal woman in the fairy tale. In fairy tales, a certain conventional portrait is given, that is, we can assume what kind of woman might be. Whichever one you like at the moment, that’s how it appears in the fairy tale. We usually don’t even know her hair color. She is simply beautiful and, of course, smart - both Elena the Beautiful and Elena the Wise. This does not mean that one is beautiful and the other is smart. She is beautiful and smart at the same time, just depending on what the hero needs more at this particular moment: for a wife to be smart or for a wife to be beautiful - depending on the needs of the fairy tale plot, this is exactly the image of the woman that will be realized in the fairy tale.
Sometimes there are some wonderful elements in the portrait of the heroine, such as, for example, “she is so beautiful that her cerebellum flows from bone to bone.” We can assume that her skin is so thin that we can see all of her insides. It's hard to say whether it's beautiful or not. But to the storyteller at the time of telling the tale, this seems to be an indicator of extraordinary beauty. If Western princesses are usually golden-haired, then our fairy-tale heroines can also be dark-haired. But such a detail as hair color is mentioned extremely rarely in the fairy tale.
Origin and features of the image of Baba Yaga
This is a mythological character who found himself in a fairy tale during the destruction of the mythological system. It is associated with the image of a priestess during initiation and funeral rites. Its origin is usually associated with chthonic characters of the underworld, the world of the dead, most often with snakes.
We can talk about this based on her name. The root “-yag-” was used in a number of dialects to refer to snakes. The serpentine origin of the yaga can be inferred from certain features of its appearance preserved in fairy tales. For example, Baba Yaga never walks - she jumps. She has a bone leg. Most likely, this is the character's only leg, and she does not have a second leg. If we look at it in more detail, turning to the mythological origins of this image, it becomes clear that the yaga’s only leg is not a leg, but a snake’s tail. Baba Yaga belongs to the so-called snake deities, who are the masters of the forest and the world of the dead. In some fairy tales, animals and birds obey Baba Yaga.
Illustration by Ivan Bilibin (1876–1942)
She can be depicted as a corpse, she is in a hut, which itself resembles a coffin, she “lies from corner to corner,” “her nose is rooted in the ceiling.” In some tales, she may have pieces of rotten flesh protruding from her body. That is, she is a half-decomposed corpse. Being the closest to the world of death, she acts as the first dead, the character who first passed through death, who knows how to get through the world of the dead. That is why she helps the hero-seeker overcome the difficulties of another world, gain secret knowledge and treasures located there.
But, as you know, they do not return from the world of the dead, but the hero arrives home safely. The reason for this is that the tale is associated not only with ideas about funeral practices, but also with rites of an initial nature, in which the participant goes through death in order to receive a new life and new social qualities. This is most clearly seen in the fairy tales about the boy and Baba Yaga, when the hero, with the help of cunning, avoids falling into the oven. The fairy tale in this case involved the motif of the hero’s rebirth through rebirth, since the stove in mythology is synonymous with the female womb. Baba Yaga helps the hero to be reborn in a new capacity, to acquire new knowledge, that is, she, as it were, performs an initiation rite.
Russian fairy tale
How was the fairy tale genre formed? What is the audience for a fairy tale? What are the origins of the image of Baba Yaga? And what myth underlies the image of the fairy-tale Serpent? Varvara Dobrovolskaya, candidate of philological sciences, talks about this.
Fairy tales are a treasure trove folk wisdom! You can learn a lot from seemingly simple stories. useful information: how to marry a prince, how to deceive Koshchei, or how to turn from a frog into a princess.
Nowadays fairy tales are read only to children, but it’s never too late to learn women’s wisdom! So, what can the heroines of fairy tales teach adult girls and women?
Princess Frog
What it teaches: the ability to hold oneself in any situation and the ability to make a king out of an ordinary man.
The Frog Princess was not ashamed of her appearance, since she perceived herself exactly as she was. She understood that beauty is not the main thing, but the main thing is the ability to present oneself correctly. It was this skill that she showed at the king’s reception, when, with a wave of her hand, a lake and swans appeared from her sleeves. And thanks to her intelligence and wisdom, she was able to turn the loser Ivan Tsarevich into a successful man.
Princess on the Pea
What does it teach: healthy sleep- is important for a woman, and no peas should interfere with this!
In a fairy tale, the Prince finds his Princess. It would seem that everything will end well, but it was not so! They decided to test the girl for the authenticity of her blue blood and placed a pea under her many mattresses and feather beds. In life modern woman there are a lot of “peas” that interfere with sleep - work, children, problems, household chores, trips, etc. But you should always remember that healthy sleep not only gives you the opportunity to rest, but also contributes to the preservation of beauty.
Vasilisa the Beautiful
What it teaches: follow your intuition.
One of a woman’s strong abilities is her intuition. But sometimes women simply don’t trust her, and want to do everything logically, like men. Vasilisa received a doll from her mother. It is she who helps her overcome difficulties in the future. The doll gave advice and helped with everything. This doll can be compared with intuition.
Nastenka from Morozko
What it teaches: be a woman to the core! Position yourself in such a way that a man feels needed, so that he wants to protect and take care of you.
A humble, patient, modest girl, Nastenka finds her happiness thanks to her kind, sympathetic character. The man next to her understands that such a fragile girl needs to be taken care of and does it without any questions.
Cinderella
What it teaches: They are greeted by their clothes and escorted by their intelligence.
It’s not for nothing that Marilyn Monroe said: “Give a woman a pair of good shoes and she will conquer the whole world!” The heroine Cinderella teaches neatness, beauty and harmonious appearance. What can we say - men like beautiful, well-groomed and stylish dressed girls. Of course, the Prince fell in love with Cinderella not for her appearance, but for her kindness, talent and sincerity, but at first she made an impact with her dress, shoes and hairstyle!
Baba Yaga
What it teaches: hospitality and thriftiness.
Despite the fact that Baba Yaga is a negative character, you can also learn a lot from her. Remember how this grandmother greeted good fellows? And she heated the bathhouse, and treated her to tea, and put her to bed. And only after that she asked about business.
Alyonushka from the fairy tale “Geese-Swans”
What it teaches: do good and it will definitely come back to you.
When Alyonushka's brother was stolen, Alyonushka went in search of him. On her way, she met various characters who asked for help, but the girl did not help. When she herself needed help, those who crossed her path also refused to help her. And only when Alyonushka herself began to help those around her, they also came to her aid.
The Snow Queen
What it teaches: never hold a grudge to yourself, otherwise your heart will become cold as an ice floe.
Apparently the Snow Queen had a hard time in life, since she imprisoned herself in an ice castle and stole the innocent boy Kai. Callous, evil and cold heart Snow Queen does not accept the joy of others, nor love, nor mercy. And all from resentment towards the whole world, which ultimately destroyed her.
Live in reality, but don't forget about good fairy tales- take from them all the brightest and best that is missing in modern world. And remember that all fairy tales end with a happy ending! We wish you good luck and don't forget to press the buttons and
